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• Radio access network, a part of a mobile telecommunication system
• Rainforest Action Network
• Ran (gene) (RAs-related Nuclear protein), also known as GTP-binding nuclear protein Ran, a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAN gene
• Ran Online (stylized as RAN Online), a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Min Communications, Inc.
• RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series)
• Rapid automatized naming, a predictor of reading ability
• Ravenna Airport, an airport in Ravenna, Italy by IATA code
• Remote Area Nurse, in Australia
• Royal Australian Navy, the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force
• Russian Academy of Sciences (transliteration of its Russian acronym Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk)
• Régie du Chemin de Fer Abidjan-Niger, was a railway which operated in French West Africa, linking Côte d'Ivoire to Upper Volta (now called Burkina Faso)

• Ran (film), a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa

Ran is the name of Ægir's wife, and their daughters are nine, even as we have written before. At this feast all things were self-served, both food and ale, and all implements needful to the feast. Then the Æsir became aware that Rán had that net wherein she was wont to catch all men who go upon the sea.

• Rán, die Frau des Meeresgottes Ägir in der eddischen Mythologie
• Ran (Film), japanischer Historienfilm aus dem Jahr 1985
• Ran (Stern), ein Stern mit einem Exoplaneten
• ran (Sportsendung), Sportsendung verschiedener Fernsehsender der ProSiebenSat.1 Media-Gruppe
• RAN-Tankstellen der Südramol GmbH & Co. KG
• Stamm im indischen Bundesstaat Arunachal Pradesh
• im Zellkern-Transport involviertes Protein
• Ran, seit 1970 als Nachfolger von Aufwärts monatlich erscheinendes Jugendmagazin des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes

• Ran (godin), een Noordse zeegodin
• Ran (film), een film van Akira Kurosawa
• Harro Ran
• Shulamit Ran